1968 Mercury Cougar GT-E - Quick Cars

In the heady days of the muscle car wars of 1968, luxury cars with performance upgrades tended to get lost in all the horsepower hype. Plymouth was touting its Road Runner with rubber floor mats and a 383ci big-block, Chevy was pushing hard with 375hp 396ci Chevelles, and Ford had its big-block Mustangs. Lost in the shuffle was the '68 Mercury Cougar. The one thing everybody remembers about the Cougars of that era was their sequential turn signals. Even less well known was a performance upgrade to the popular XR-7 package called the GT-E. It was only available in 1968, and most of the cars were fitted with 7.0L 427 FE engines.

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Hidden among these 357 GT-E cars were exactly 37 Cougars upgraded with 340hp 428ci Cobra Jet engines. These FE-family big-block Fords were fitted with Holley carbs and fed through fully functional Ram Air hoodscoops and air cleaner assemblies. Way back in 1977, Gary Woodward persuaded his dad to loan him the money to buy this Augusta Green cat from its original owner. Since then, he's rebuilt the original 428 and painted the car, but that's the original interior-a classic reminder that even in 1968, not all performance cars were stripped-down muscle machines.

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